Evacuees reunion
Dorothy Hagarty shares a photo of a reunion between her family and wartime evacuees who stayed with them on George Street. This is a photo taken at the back of my grandmother’s home at 30 George Street in Brandon. I am the one back row right. Next to me is my ‘aunt’ Connie, who was…
Newspaper rounds and the bookstall
Cherry Rogers reflects upon her youth – buying a book from the railway station bookstall … I was just thinking how times have changed, when I was listening to two young children chatting while I was out shopping. Talk about being grown up! It got me thinking about my childhood and growing up. Playing down…
Announcement: AGM 2017
We can finally announce the Brandon Heritage Centre AGM will be held on: 7.30pm, Thursday 25th May, at the Brandon Royal British Legion, London Road, BRANDON Please do come along and have your say. As you may be aware we were hopeful that the meeting on April 12th would be the AGM so we could…
Wash day in Thetford Road
Cherry Rogers remembers her mum and nan on wash day … Monday was washday. Tuesday ironing. Wednesday bedrooms. Thursday front room, which was only used at Christmas, so why it needed cleaning every week I don’t know – a quick dust and that would have been it, blinking freezing in there anyway! The only…
Growing up in ‘Tip
John DeCamps was born in Town Street (Tip). His mother was Brandon-born, nee Dyer, so he has a few memories of his time there … “I was born in my grandparents house in 1942. Mum and I lived with them till dad was demobbed after the war, then we moved to a Nissen hut on Rattlers…
Jean Dodwell (nee Claxton) remembers: part 1
Jean Dodwell, nee Claxton, Was born in Santon Downham in 1921, moving to Brandon a few years later when her father ran the Fox and Hounds pub on Thetford Road. Jean now lives in Bournemouth, and has been sharing her memories of her time in Brandon before WW2 … “When we lived at the pub,…
‘Courting’ in the 1950s
Cherry Rogers remembers courting in the 1950s … The thing to do in Brandon in the late fifties and early sixties (same in most places I think) was to go to a café or coffee bar. In Brandon it was the ‘New England’ at the bottom of London Road, next to Alf Cunningham’s garage. Or…
Community Open Day
Our first day open! We shall be open on Sunday 4th June – Carnival Day. This will be your chance to visit us and tell us what you like and what you don’t like about the Heritage Centre. We shall be displaying some old carnival photos to coincide with the event. Admission will be free…